Thread: Baught a p38 3 days ago.... and its stuffed already.

Yep, last time i tried getting one of these off(rear axles on my old D2, i ended up breaking 2 1/2in drive breaker bars before giving up and cutting the nuts off. This time i have a mate doing it in a workshop with a massive rattle gun for me, 460nm sounds like a **** load, i will have to check if my big torque wrench even goes that high.

Get Lokka to pull out Big bertha, sorry to hear of your problems. Anyway when we testing out these rangies up yours?

on here www.discovery2.co.uk / Front Wheel Hub / Bearing Assy he says 490nm for stake nut, if p38 same that is?.

Originally Posted by LowRanger

Well I did see Rons' on the footpath at a club meeting one night,if that is Offroad

It's been "off-road" twice in the 11 years I have owned it (and I drive it into my back yard quite often).

Originally Posted by cal415

Yep, last time i tried getting one of these off(rear axles on my old D2, i ended up breaking 2 1/2in drive breaker bars before giving up and cutting the nuts off. This time i have a mate doing it in a workshop with a massive rattle gun for me, 460nm sounds like a **** load, i will have to check if my big torque wrench even goes that high.

As I said before I had a Truck tyre place loosen mine and after I had done the job went back for them to torque it up with a torque wrench about 1.5 mtrs long. No way could I do it with DIY tools

Rave says 260nm for the drive shaft nut.

One reason why I haven't tried to sell my P38A on the forum is that if something does go wrong, I'd feel terrible. If it sells to someone outside the forum, I'd probably never hear about.

Normally I'd just trade it in but I don't need a replacement and, besides, would the car yard care that it's got a totally rebuilt engine with top hat liners, injected LPG, Haltech Interceptor, long range tank, Kaymar rear bar and wheel carrier? Not when it comes to making an offer.

Sounds like a good one Ron... Wanna swap?

I ended up getting this sorted out last night, they are a rather easy to work on honestly, much better than doing a CV in a Defender, classic or disco etc

Thanks for the info re stake nut, i read a few different things from different sources in the end my torque wrench only goes to 220nm, so it ended up getting torqued to FT then flattened out.

It drives much better now its actually putting drive down on both ends.... i even got to test it up the mountain on our new property tonight and i was fairly impressed, now on to the other issues, biggest down fall i ahve found so far is the 20-23L per 100km constant fuel usage, it also feels pretty doughy especially down low, i currently have 2 d1 v8s both i feel go as well or better than the p38 power wise, especially the manual, and compared to my county its an absolute slug.